The Influence of Teacher’s Corrective Feedback on Students’ Lexical Error

Corrective feedback isa sensory information that students receive as a result of responses. Corrective feedback that is given by the teacher to prevent the lexical error made by the students. The aims of this study were to find outthe influence of teacher’s corrective feedback on students’ lexical error at first grade of SMAN 1 Bandar Dua Pidie Jaya and also to investigate students’ responses toward corrective feedback given by the teacher. Pre-experimental research was used in this study that involved one class to be given treatment which consists of 25 students. The data were obtained through pre-test, post-test,and questionnaire. The results of this study indicated that there was a statistically significant effect at the level of (α = 0,05) between pre-test and post-test. T-score was higher that T-table (10,84> 2,06). It means that Ha was accepted and Ho was refused. Furthermore, the result of the questionnaire showed that most of the students gave positive responses toward corrective feedback given by the teacher. Based on the results, it can be concluded that teacher’s corrective feedback influences on students’ lexical error and this strategy is appropriate to be applied at SMAN 1 Bandar Dua Pidie Jaya especially in writing.